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Children from southern Somalia hold their pots as they line up to receive cooked food in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Globe Trot: Did U.S. farm bill worsen Somali famine?

International | More on the UN report on Somalia’s famine, which killed more than a quarter-million Somalis in less than two years. We all watched it unfold, made worse by militants who refused to allow aid groups to deliver…

A woman rests on a stretcher after being rescued from the collapsed garment factory.

Midday Roundup: Miraculous escape from garment factory rubble

Newsworthy |  Garment factory miracle. Crowds gathered at the site of the collapsed Bangladesh garment factory cheered Friday as rescuers freed a woman trapped in the…

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

Midday Roundup: Looks like that red line’s been crossed

Newsworthy |  About face. On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called Israeli claims that Syria used chemical weapons on rebel fighters battling to overthrow…

Pitcher R.A. Dickey demonstrates his knuckleball grip following a news conference in Toronto in early January.

Knuckling down on sex trafficking

India |  R.A. Dickey came face to face with the hell-on-earth ugliness of Mumbai’s red-light district last week, and he said nothing could have prepared him for it.

Anti-government protesters gather near Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday.

Globe Trot: Egypt anniversary, Vietnam house churches, Mumbai plotter sentenced, Israeli politics

International |  Today marks the second anniversary of the start of the Egyptian uprising that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Then, as today, protesters took to the…

A supporter of National Council of Dalit Christians sits at a protest demanding equal rights in 2009

Globe Trot 11.14

International |  The Family Research Council with The Voice of the Martyrs today sponsored a webcast highlighting “The Threat to Religious Liberty Around the…

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Spicy democracy

India |  In India as elsewhere, government of and by the people can be pungent, messy, and slow

A latrine in a slum in Mumbai, India

Globe Trot 10.08

International |  The big debate here in India is over toilets vs. temples. India’s rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, started it with a comment late last week that…

Aftermath of today's bombings in Aleppo

Globe Trot 10.03

International |  Four apparent suicide bombs in Aleppo today have killed at least 40 and reduced to rubble large swaths of the ancient city. The area bombed included public…

Gospel for Asia pastor freed

Gospel for Asia pastor freed

India |  Almost one week after five armed terrorists kidnapped Ponnachan George from a Bible school campus in Assam, India, the Gospel for Asia (GFA) pastor is free.

Time to mourn

Time to mourn

India |  News photographer recounts Wednesday's bomb blasts in Mumbai

'Worthless!'
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'Worthless!'

India |  In India, the birth of a baby girl often brings grief and shame-and murder

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